Eurotrip 1 Day 15 . Nice

Today we rushed like we never had to Lyon Part Dieu, the train station, 'cause we had miscalculated the time needed to get there, and plus the mistakes that go along when one gets tense, like getting off at the wrong stop or getting out at the wrong exit when every minute counted just made it worse...there I was running with two huge haversacks with a scaled down version tagging along behind(Meiyi)...it must surely have made for a pretty hilarious episode under normal circumstances...but then again no one in his right mind would run with 30kg of luggage under normal circumstances, would he?? Maybe not...anyway...we managed to catch the train as it was late...Thank God!...and we were off to Nice! Remember it is always a good idea to reserve seats, especially when the trip is long and it's to a touristic place like Nice...cos even with seats, it took us almost half an hour just getting there, whilst in the train, jostling through the crowded cabins...The view of the Loire Valley and other wine making regions along the way was qutie breath taking...plus there was this interesting and cute mother and son duo sitting just across from us...the son was always sneaking away to play at some corner and his mother would wake up from her nap to go get him back...
When we arrived at the Nice train station, after having taken in some pretty good views of the see and beach since we had passed by Cannes, we could immediately feel the difference as the weather was markedly better, having nice cool sea breeze and all...After checking with the helpful tourist information agent, we decided to get a room for 40 euro that didn't come with air-conditioning...but the weather was good so there wasn't a need...so after checking in, we went walking around, but found that most shops had closed by then...we also bought 2 days of daily tickets...dinner was round the corner and so we took up an offer to have sets for 9 euros each...not bad...but after that we found that the restaurant next door served duck!...we will go there tomorrow...



sleeping was not so good...the street below was used as some sort of waiting area for buses, so I was irritated to no end by the incessant roar of the blasted buses...which was augmented by the architecture of the street, what with its intimate scale, resulting in an echo effect along the street...